Lead Developer
Location: GB, LND, London
Department: Technology
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Function: Information Technology

Company profile:
Articheck is a SAAS business which solves a problem for hundreds of thousands of businesses in the art industry: the need to record the condition of works of art before they’re sold, shipped, auctioned, valued, restored, lent and insured. Founded by an expert art conservator with deep connections at the top of the industry, the company already has an MVP with paying customers, a strong pipeline, and an oversubscribed seed funding round.We are now going into our next phase of growth, recently recruited a COO, sales and marketing and now need to build an agile product and technology team.

Job description:
One of the hottest start-ups in London, Articheck is a SAAS business which solves a problem for hundreds of thousands of businesses in the art industry: the need to record the condition of works of art before they’re sold, shipped, auctioned, valued, restored, lent and insured. Founded by an expert art conservator with deep connections at the top of the industry, the company already has an MVP with paying customers, a strong pipeline, and an oversubscribed seed funding round.We need to bring product development and tech in-house as we grow, and you’re the person who can help us do it. You’ll have a strategic impact on the company, and you’ll be rewarded with a meaningful chunk of stock options in addition to salary. This is a fantastic opportunity to be employee number 3 in a company that has the opportunity to change the art world. We need a rock star coder, someone who is comfortable taking decisions, being hands on with coding and building their own team around them. You will live and breathe development and scaling, be responsible for all the major product features, and scaling our application.Working closely with the CEO as product owner, you will plan iterations and manage their scope to keep them on time and on budget.As well as writing code yourself, you’ll build your own technical team around you.Develop the product and technical roadmap and communicate it to our investors.Work with the CEO and COO to identify technology platforms to scale the product for use on web and mobile platforms.

Requirements:
You will be a CTO or lead coder, passionate about technology and mobile business applications who can take ownership of our existing codebase, review it, tweak it, if necessary wholeheartedly change it, we are not wedded to anyone platform.You’ll be academically very smart, and probably have a computer science or maths degree.You have an active Github account that demonstrates proficiency AND diversity of interestsYou’ll have some people skills already, plus a strong wish to develop them furtherYou’ll have scalable web experience, probably Python/Django and maybe iOS too.You’ll understand agile development and lean start-ups.Experience of building on front and backend technology stacks

Benefits:
We offer equity in the company, a fantastic team to work with and mentoring from great investors.